The struggle for recognition of rights in the Axel Honneth’s Critical Theory and the experience of the public audience on racial quotas in the ADPF 186: reflections on experiences of disrespect, social movements and struggle for rights
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https://doi.org/10.12957/publicum.2018.29091Keywords:
Critical Theory, Axel Honneth, Struggle for recognition of rights, Disrespect experiences, Racial quotas.Abstract
The Critical Theory, since its origin and progressively over the decades, dealt with themes related to modern law seeking for a better understanding of its practices, functions, potentials and emancipatory blockades. One of the current and most influential authors of this tradition is Axel Honneth who, in his book Struggle for Recognition, develops the theory that struggles for recognition carry a moral force that is capable of promoting developments and progress in social life. From its construction of the existence of three possible spheres of recognition, among them the sphere of rights, we seek to extract what can be considered directed to the law field in the theory of recognition of Axel Honneth, relating it with the most recent considerations of the author in the contemporary debate on theories of justice, in which it seeks to make a connection between the individual and collective scope of life, making it possible to sketch a proposal for a critical theory of justice in which struggles for recognition could have a direct influence on the normative definition of justice parameters. In the end, we deal with the analysis of the public hearing and judgement of the constitutionality of the policy of racial quotas for admission to higher education (ADPF 186) as a way of exemplifying the conceptual construction exposed, demonstrating the approaches of social disrespect suffered by the interested parties and their struggles for recognition to solve them.
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